I like to think I'm pretty used to leftist celebrities saying stupid things, but there are moments where even I'm given pause and just sit in awe of how ridiculous and full of themselves these people are.
I'm gonna show you a clip for Lupita Nyong'o, the woman cast to play Helen of Troy in Christopher Nolan's upcoming live-adaptation of "The Odyssey," and I want you to try not to let your eyes roll so hard that they manage to fall out of their sockets.
Has the ability to ask Homer a single question- proceeds to lecture...😒 pic.twitter.com/ISh24efcA4
— Steph Anie (@mynerdyhome) July 6, 2026
For those who didn't watch the clip because they wanted to spare their brain cells and not become stupider for having just heard that, what Nyong'o was asked by the interviewer was what she would say to or ask Homer, the ancient writer of the story she's been miscast to help recreate. Her response is that she would ask how he feels after seeing so much screen time given to women in the movie, seeing as how he didn't think to spend too much time on them in his story.
She would even give him a reproaching look.
Aghast.
I can remember the last time I had this feeling was when this same leftist mentality was pouring over Tolkien as Amazon was on the verge of releasing "The Rings of Power," its modern bastardization of Tolkien's work. One of the greatest writers in all of Western history was being finger-wagged at while in the grave by leftists who weren't too happy about his misrepresentation of minorities and sidelining of women.
Back then, I would've told you that the left had a fundamental misunderstanding of Tolkien and his work, but I've since come to understand that this isn't just an entire group of ideological lunatics not able to see the forest for the trees because of their mental blinders. Now, I know they understand Tolkien's work perfectly well, and what they're doing is deconstructing it to make your children's children's children believe that Tolkien's work is something other than what it is.
As I said in a previous article:
It's more and more apparent to me that the only people who need to learn a lesson here are us. We need to understand that they're not out to entertain us and just keep missing the mark because they can't get out of their own way. This is an intentional redefining of the foundational stories our society uses as guidelines so that we're subtly redirected toward more of their way of thinking.
And their way of thinking revolves around being self-serving, unmistakably anti-Christian, and shallow in every discernible way. It's meant to eliminate bravery in the face of great odds, make traditional Western values seem out of touch and outdated, and most importantly, push the idea of indefinable moral lines so that what is and isn't moral can easily be changed when necessary.
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The same thing is happening here, of course.
Nolan and the leftist infection in the entertainment industry are trying to rewrite one of the greatest epics of the West, because they think they know better than the man who founded Western storytelling. Nyong'o's hubris is a massive show of ignorance, but an ignorance born out of her ideological conditioning and brainwashing. She, and the rest of her friends in Hollywood, know exactly what they're doing and why they're doing it.
The stupidity isn't in the tactics. The stupidity is in thinking their side should be fighting this battle in the first place. They think they know better than everyone else, despite all the proof to the contrary.
I don't care that the story was written long ago and that many of the beliefs of the ancient era conflict with the modern era in many ways, both legitimately on some counts and illegitimately on leftist ideological grounds. Homer wrote a story that happened not to feature certain things because those things weren't as important to the tale he was trying to tell. A good story doesn't have to give equal time to every aspect within it. If it did, the story would be long-winded, unbalanced, and just boring.
So Homer not hyper-focusing on the plight of women in a story that was squarely about the adventures of men on an adventure to return home does not make "The Odyssey" bad. It doesn't need to be "fixed."
Yet, Hollywood in its hubris thinks it knows better than every writer across time because their ideology tells them they're better than everyone else. So they go about changing, adjusting, and ultimately corrupting everything.
I'll just say this...
The left went to war over defending "The Rings of Power"..., and now they don't even watch it.
Because the left is bad at writing stories.
